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Reading the comments, it appears that readers of Zeteo are divided between those who believe the Democratic Party should continue as is because they've been winning elections recently, and those who believe that a change is required because first of all there's increasing inequality and too much support for repressive regimes, and we need to reverse that, morally, and also because the country's shift to the right (of, for example, Latino men) is something that will become increasingly impossible to overcome.

So do we split into two parties? Do we support/modify something that already exists? How does this viewpoint gain more traction?

I am definitely ready to stop holding my nose to vote for the "least bad" candidate.

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Dent, Arthur Dent's avatar

Maybe a two party system doesn't work?

Nah, that can't be it...

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Something I'm not seeing in the comments is an understanding that we have an increasing population that doesn't believe in democracy. In part, Trump tricked them, they voted for something they don't want, but in part, he promised to dismantle democracy, and that may be how many people think, not only billionaires.

Because: democracy did not work for them, they're ready to try *anything else.*

Also, because many people would agree that what we need is more loyalty, respect for authority, and less attention to protection of the vulnerable, less attention to fairness and justice.

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Dent, Arthur Dent's avatar

They were given the choice of the lesser of two evils, and chose MORE evil.

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Simple Science's avatar

Well this is where the point that they were lied to and misled comes in. But yes, they were no longer able/willing to vote for the status quo.

Endless rehashing of what went wrong and maybe it's too soon. But it makes sense to me that the Democrats became the party of better-educated reasonably well-off people. The rest were captured by grifting lying media that I've never personally seen.

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Also Black Women, for whatever reason, stayed with the Dems.

Doubly-victimized status (racism/sexism) might lead a person to see things a certain way. White men and Latino men somehow think they can join the "men" part? White women aiming for the "white" part.

So Black Women not so easily fooled by the media that captured others.

But they are still voting for the lesser evil and don't see a way to equality and fairness.

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